As the Ontario Medical Association continues to sound the alarm over a family doctor shortage, one doctor said a move toward American-style health care is ‘happening already.’
Nothing to worry about!
It’s not like 1 in 4 Americans has medical debt, it’s only 23%In our family we have gotten smart. We have the wait and hope it goes away health plan.
This. Everyone I talk to says, “but socialized medicine has such long wait times.” But these same fuckers avoid going to the doctor until it’s absolutely unbearable to deal with because it costs to much to find out if it’ll get better on its own. So if you’re getting symptoms of something and waiting two months anyway, how is your system better?
In the 58 years I’ve lived here, I have never waited more than a few hours to see a doctor, never more than a couple of days to see my doctor, and never more than a month to see a specialist.
Im sceptical of the people claiming that “several months” is a common experience.
Our local Health System UF told me that the first available PCP appointment for a new patient was on November 11th and I called on May 1st. They then called me on November 8th to tell me they were double booked and the next available was January. I told them some inpolite words.
But you know the solution? I just went to a different doctor. Was seen in less than a week.
Same.
Bwahahaha. Sure take the one thing every American doctor or medical associate, every patient and worker hates. That a great idea /s
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Think of all the guns and bombers you could buy with all that health money!
How nursing staffing agencies are costing Ontario hospitals untold millions to the tune of $170 million in 2022.
I wonder what forces have recently created a temporary lack of nursing staff after so many quit because of ignorant hillbillies and their horse paste.
Wait. I answered my own question.
And isn’t it classic conservatism to fix a multi-year problem with a solution that will damage families for generations? Typical “I got mine so f-u” conservatives.
Wasn’t there a recent report that it was costing the province twice as much with privaye, and that one board member of private place under investigation because he was only accepting profitable patients and diverting low profit “customers” back to the public sustem